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...nationalization of the power industry (TIME, Oct. 5), a meaningless economic move, was a sop to the Socialists, who hold no Cabinet posts, but whose 88 votes in the Chamber of Deputies keep Premier Amintore Fanfani's government in power. The next measure the Socialists are demanding is the creation of 15 regional governments in Italy, a move opposed by many Christian Democrats because it would give the left a dangerous amount of local power if the Socialists remained tied to the Reds...
...pool game.... About 12 o'clock they'll go home and change clothes and come back up for the evening. Then they'll go down and dance some, then get drunk and stay out late.... They's always out for the trouble. And they're tomorrow's nothings.... Sop booze. My gang'd be there, and I'd have on my black leather jacket--Hell's Lost Angels on it. Man, that wasn't one or two hours a day; that was all the time...
...were annulled as if they had never taken place. Congress was dissolved, and the civilian governors of all Argentine provinces not already removed were ousted in favor of military commanders. Argentina would now be governed by presidential decree and ruled by military men not elected to office. As a sop, the military promised new elections for Oct. 27, 1963. But those elected would not take office until May 1, 1964, thus assuring two full years of unquestioned rule by the military...
...contract, such as support for an ''active'' policy by which Bonn would deal directly with Eastern European nations, notably Czechoslovakia and Poland. The more significant development was the resignation of Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, whose scalp was offered by Adenauer as a sop to the Free Democrats, who are still smarting from his campaign attacks. In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate of European unity through such organizations as the Common Market and Euratom. His successor, sharp-tongued Gerhard Schröder (see following story), was angrily...
...Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Allen Ellender brought up every compromise he could think of, only to have Freeman's scheme scuttled 9-8 by a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. In the House committee, the plan went down to defeat before a similar coalition, although, as a sop. Freeman was given the power to set up marketing-control plans for honey, lamb, turkeys, California apples-and peanuts...